The Politics of Display: Museums, Science and Culture

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Overview

The assumption that museum exhibitions, particularly those concerned with science and technology, are somehow neutral and impartial is today being challenged both in the public arena and in the academy. The Politics of Display brings together studies of contemporary and historical exhibitions and contends that exhibitions are never, and never have been, above politics. Rather, technologies of display and ideas about 'science' and 'objectivity' are mobilized to tell stories of progress, citizenship, racial and national difference. The display of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima is a well-known case in point.

The Politics of Display charts the changing relationship between displays and their audience and analyzes the consequent shift in styles of representation towards interactive, multimedia and reflexive modes of display. The Politics of Display brings together an array of international scholars in the disciplines of sociology, anthropology and history. Examples are taken from exhibitions of science, technology and industry, anthropology, geology, natural history and medicine, and locations include the United States of America, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Spain.

This book is an excellent contribution to debates about the politics of public culture. It will be of interest to students of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, museum studies and science studies.

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Analyses of contemporary and historical exhibitions demonstrate the ways that technologies of display and ideas about science and objectivity are mobilized to tell stories of progress, citizenship, and racial and national difference. Examples from various sciences and from around the world chart the changing relationship between displays and their audiences. They also analyze the shift in styles of representation towards interactive, multimedia and reflexive modes of display. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415153263
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
  • Publication date: 1/28/1998
  • Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 264
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Sharon Macdonald is lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sheffield. She is author of Remaining Culture (1997), editor of Inside Identities (1993) and co-editor of Theorizing Museums (1996) and The Sociological Review.

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Table of Contents

List of figures
Notes on contributors
Preface
1 Exhibitions of power and powers of exhibition: an introduction to the politics of display 1
2 Speaking to the eyes: museums, legibility and the social order 25
3 The visibility of difference: nineteenth-century French anthropological collections 36
4 Reifying race: science and art in Races of Mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History 53
5 Making nature 'real' again: natural history exhibits and public rhetorics of science at the Smithsonian Institution in the early 1960s 77
6 On interactivity: consumers, citizens and culture 98
7 Supermarket science? Consumers and 'the public understanding of science' 118
8 Nations on display: technology and culture in Expo '92 139
9 Strangers in paradise: an encounter with fossil man at the Dutch Museum of Natural History 159
10 Can science museums take history seriously? 173
11 Birth and Breeding: politics on display at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine 183
12 Balancing acts: science, Enola Gay and History Wars at the Smithsonian 197
Afterword: from war to debate? 229
Index 237
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